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Re:Slack will never replace email by playeren on Sunday June 16, 2019 @08:31AM (#20195154)
Most of the Slack channels I use are used async, and I only have notifications on for 2 out of ~15 channels. Good comms culture was much easier to develop with Slack + [Something for docs] for the teams I have worked with. But I very much understand that teams are different, and different cultures work optimally for different teams.
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Re:Slack will never replace email by fogetti on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:26AM (#20202170)
But then what's the point of using Slack? Your scenario describes you could just use email without downsides.
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Re:Slack will never replace email by playeren on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @07:25AM (#20211784)
> without downsides

Hmm. Might be true for you.

Slack enabled "De-silo'ing". It became more efficient and convenient to ask a team, or knowledge group of something, instead of depending on specific persons. Easier to be flexible about which topics to follow or not. I.e. normally I don't interact much with the #ops channel, but Bill is on holiday, so I'm giving it attention this week.

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